Compassion is a verb.

Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do.

There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.

If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.

Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a while, we see that mountains are again mountains. Now the mountains are very free. Our mind is still with the mountains, but it is no longer bound to anything.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life